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What Happened to Sweetie Pie's After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 21 St. Louis, Missouri

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Sweetie Pie's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated 2026-09 marks the Manchester Avenue Sweetie Pie's permanently closed, and KSDK reported a separate Sweetie Pie's location closed in September 2022. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? 2 episodes

Part 1 — Season 21, Episode 14 Aired

On the 'Southern Spectacular' episode (aired 2014-12-22), Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives revisited Sweetie Pie's in St. Louis, where owner Robbie Montgomery shared her recipe for the restaurant's mac and cheese, made with two pounds of Velveeta plus shredded cheddar and Colby jack. Guy Fieri also praised the soul-food menu's smothered pork, greens, and cabbage. Montgomery opened Sweetie Pie's in 1997, and the restaurant first appeared on the show's 'Like Mama Made' episode in 2008, according to Fox 2 Now.

Part 2 — Season 3, Episode 2 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Sweetie Pie's for its steam-table soul food during the 'Like Mama Made' episode, spotlighting dishes like smothered pork chops and mac and cheese. The restaurant was founded by Robbie Montgomery, a former Ike & Tina Turner backup singer, and its Manchester Avenue location in the Grove neighborhood of St. Louis became the flagship setting for the OWN reality series 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's.' A Yelp listing updated 2026-09 marks the Manchester Avenue restaurant permanently closed, showing more than 500 archived reviews. Sweetie Pie's operated several St. Louis locations over the years, including a Delmar Boulevard 'Upper Crust' spot that KSDK reported closed on 2022-09-25 to make way for an expansion of the John Cochran VA Medical Center; Yelp listings for that address and a Florissant Avenue location are likewise marked permanently closed.

The episodes Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Episode 14
Aired
Title: Southern Spectacular · What was featured: Famous mac and cheese and smothered pork
Season 3, Episode 2
Aired
Title: Like Mama Made · What was featured: Soul food steam-table classics like smothered pork chops
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Sources we checked 6 references

  1. fox2now.com https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/the-7-st-louis-restaurants-visited-by-guy-fieri-on-diners-drive-ins-and-dives/
  2. dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/sweetie-pies-missouri.html
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/sweetie-pies-soul-food-saint-louis-2
  4. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/sweetie-pies-saint-louis
  5. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/sweetie-pies-upper-crust-st-louis-3
  6. ksdk.com https://www.ksdk.com/article/money/business/sweetie-pies-closes-upper-crust-location-delmar-boulevard-saint-louis/63-98acc406-79b1-4aa2-be7c-3c39d6ef0404
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